Egg crisis hits Kampala: Soaring prices force bakers, street vendors into 'shrinkflation'

The supply shortage in eggs is severely impacting commercial and bulk buyers across the capital.

At 6:30am in Kireka, Margaret Samoka is already at work inside her bakery, Maggie Cakes. A glass display of sample designs is polished, a branded price list hangs on the wall, and two assistants in aprons line up baking tins for the day's orders. The scent of vanilla fills the air, but inside the mixing bowl, business is no longer the same. Three months ago, Ms Samoka would crack 12 eggs for her standard batch of Shs50,000 cakes. Today, she cracks nine.